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Yesterday in Boston, our nation collectively held its breath. We whispered quiet prayers for victims and their families. Shortly after news of the tragedy unfolded, we regained our equilibrium and immediately, had suspicions. Perhaps being jaded is an inevitable byproduct of being an American. We have, after all, watched the assassinations of JFK, MLK and RFK and witnessed as their platforms of peace and equality dissolved into so much alphabet soup. We have seen NAFTA promoted as a gateway to a prosperous America while it whittled away and hollowed out our nation’s industrial core. We have seen the elections of 2000 and 2004, with vast disparities between exit poll data and final vote tallies. We have seen the events of 9/11 and the police state it has created around us. We have been led into a senseless wars of aggression, based on lies and unfounded allegations. We have watched as our media has been cowed into silence, serving no more benefit to society than tabloids. We have watched the Nobel Peace Prize be awarded to a man who began a program of targeted killings and signature assassinations, of indefinite detention and continued the use of torture, by our personnel and through our proxies. We have seen the creation of a surveillance state, enacted by threats of terrorism. This year, the European Union received the Nobel Peace Prize, while enacting austerity measures that have included the outright theft of deposits from Cypriot banks. We have grown accustomed to the propaganda that masquerades as news.

Maybe then, it is understandable why the events of Monday are viewed through the mirrored shades of skepticism.

Immediately after the events in Boston, literally before the smoke had cleared, CNN was chomping at the bit to invoke ”terrorism”. They termed it an “attack”, despite having no evidence to do so, as though they were following a prewritten script to its predetermined conclusion. The parade of pundits seemed determined to offer a list of motivations for such an attack. They repeatedly mentioned ‘patriots’ and ‘patriot day’ as a potential motive, also tax day. They painted a picture quickly, acting without hard facts, speaking with authority. The assertions made by the media were validated by others, equally enthusiastic about the opportunity to use a ”terror attack” against a shocked citizenry.

Local 15, an NBC affiliate serving Mobile, Alabama, spoke the a cross country coach for the University of Mobile, participated in the marathon. According to Ali Stevenson, “They kept making announcements to the participants do not worry, it’s just a training exercise.” Stevenson saw police spotters on roofs and bomb sniffing dogs at both the start and finish of the race. Stevenson, who has participated in numerous marathons world-wide said he had never seen the level of security that was present in Boston. “Evidently, I don’t believe they were just having a training exercise,” Stevenson said. “I think they must have had some sort of threat or suspicion called in.”

Approximately an hour after the explosions, VP Biden used the word ”bombing” while delivering a statement on Boston. This opened the flood gates and through them came a suffocating wave of assumptions and conjecture. Propaganda, to call these broadcasts by their rightful name.

The fear and loathing of American media is at an all-time high. The mantra ”if it bleeds, it leads” is heard in newsrooms across the country. Blood, death and mayhem…it sells papers and that satisfies the profit margin. When able to invoke images of a ”terror attack” on US soil, the registers hum with increased advertising dollars and circulation. Cable news coverage of Boston was no disappointment to the boards of directors at Time-Warner, Disney or News Corporation. For them, it is the beginning of high cotton.

In addition to the glut of talking heads on these networks and their subsidiaries, we were treated to a quote from MA Representative Keating, who called the explosions a sophisticated, organized attack. Keating sit on a DHS oversight committee. He reinforced the assumption of motive, by mentioning both ‘patriot day’ and tax day as perhaps leading to the timing of the attack.

Cable news was off and running. Squeezed between pictures of chaos, bloodied spectators and explosions, the seeds of acceptance were sown. Fusion Centers, DHS intelligence hubs, were mentioned as playing a crucial role in tracing suspects. Law enforcement, as a result of DHS centralization, were ordered to ‘phase one mobilization’. All available officers, deputies, etc were called in. Flights were suspended in Boston. A no fly order was given for the area of the blasts, preventing any media aerial coverage. Through the use of language and bias, cable media endorsed the widespread debut of the US Police State.

For months, independent media, progressive and libertarian bloggers, writers and reporters have been discussing the rise of a Gestapo-like, militarized police force. They have brought us reports on Operation Flex, a sting operation that led to FBI entrapment in the Muslim community. We have seen the case of the Cleveland Five, arrested in a similar FBI operation for plotting to bomb a bridge. These five men have been described as ‘anarchists’, a government code for domestic terrorism. Their case, upon close examination, clearly shows FBI agents feeding the men drugs while leading, aiding and abetting them in concocting a plot to blow up a bridge in the name of Occupy Cleveland.

We have seen the arrest of the NATO 3 in Chicago, after FBI agents ingratiated himself with the group. In that particular case, FBI infiltrators attempted to convince the young men to commit an act of terror at the Chicago NATO summit. After failing, the agents then planted materials in the apartment of the men and called in a raid. This is ”worse than a case of entrapment”. These young men, arrested on May 16, 2012, are still in jail fighting 11 felony counts.

Recently, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky stood and conducted an old-fashioned filibuster against the nomination of CIA Director John Brennan. Brennan, the architect of the drone program and signature strikes in addition to having knowledge of the torture of detainees overseas, was asked questions about drones, as was Obama. These questions centered around the use of domestic drones and assassination programs conducted in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. The White House did not clearly answer questions surrounding the murder of three American citizens without due process. They did not say unequivocably, that drones wouldn’t be used on American soil.

The Obama administration has sought to extend and make permanent the Authorization of the Use of Military Force. He means to make it permanent as the ‘war on terror’, against a tactic, not a specific enemy promises to be. The creation of a permanent state of war, a war without borders and bounds, will allow the President to conduct military operations on American soil against American citizens.

The NDAA has allowed for the indefinite detention of American citizens, without due process. It will allow for those who dissent from the government and would rise up against government overreach to be arrested. It allows for them to be held, without ever hearing charges against them, without ever seeing a judge. It allows for Americans to be detained as those who are held in GITMO bay. There, many detainees are staging a hunger strike against being held without charge. Many of the individuals who are being held and tortured there see death as the preferable alternative to never-ending incarceration without having been found guilty of anything. In fact, many held at GITMO are farmers and civilians who were snatched up in the beginning days of our ‘war on terror’.

As this article is being written, three more potential ricin envelopes have been discovered in the Senate offices.. This follows the discovery of a ricin letter addressed to Mississippi Senator Roger Wicker. Mentioned in the media account of events in the St. Louis Post Dispatch, was his recent vote to allow debate to begin on a gun control bill. While Wicker is a conservative and NRA member, he was quoted as saying “I cast this vote at the request of the National Rifle Association, of which I am a member.” He also added that he is a 100 percent supporter of the Second Amendment and his voting record proves that.

Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va) was quoted as saying his office was ”quarantined” and his staff was being evacuated. An anonymous staff member in the Hart building described a man with a backpack running into offices and dropping envelopes. Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL) said in a statement his office also received one of the packages. Capitol Police are controlling access to the buildings.

Senator Carl Levin (D-Michigan) said his regional office in Saginaw, MI received a “suspicious-looking letter”. It was turned over to authorities, who are now investigating.

Claire McCaskill (D-MO) said that the police suspect a person who “writes a lot of letters to members.” This comment after a law enforcement briefing.

President Obama also received a parcel that tested positive initially for ricin. This package was found at an off-site processing facility and results are expected in 24-48 hrs.

If this pattern seems familiar, if it reminds, of similar letters with mysterious powders after a violent attack, it should. This is the same methodology employed in the days after 9/11. Senate offices were closed as a result of anthrax fears. We are watching a re-run, it would appear.

In the days after Sept. 11, the Patriot Act was rushed through. As was the Authorization for the Use of Military Force. We heard government lies and a conspiring media lead the cheers for war. This resulted in the invasion of a previously sovereign country. It was the use of ”shock and awe” against an unwilling population in order to stun them into having less will to resist. It is the same thing we are seeing now, in the wake of a new ”terror attack”. Shock the population, scare them, in order to pass things you wouldn’t ordinarily be able to. In order to push agendas on an unsuspecting public jumping at media created shadows and ”domestic terror” boogeymen.

It is no accident that legislation like CISPA is in Congress right now. Neither is it a coincidence that Common Core resistance has picked up momentum as citizens begin to educate one another on this government/corporate collusion that will fundamentally work to destroy public education as we know it. It isn’t an accident that there is an increasing militarization of our local police forces. It is not random that the president is set to join the GOP in cutting social safety nets and enacting measures of American Austerity.

Wednesday, the IMF released a report that said we are on the brink of a world-wide economic crisis. Apple shares dropped today on signs of missed revenue and lagging sales. The stock market continues to climb as our Fed has made $85 billion dollars a month available to big banks. This has allowed corporations to merge and expand on our tax dollars, sending the market into the stratosphere, while having no effect on the people whose money is being given away. The rich continue to get rich, the poor continue to pay the tab.

The events in Boston, regardless of who was responsible (a suspect has been taken into custody as I am writing this), set the stage for tightening the noose around us while singing praises to those who would tie it to a tree. The media cannot heap enough praise on DHS and the rise of our police and surveillance state. They will say it has led to a quick capture, minimizing the potential for other acts of terror. They will create a characature out of whomever is responsible. Based on the rudimentary components of the bombs, pressure cookers, ball bearings and nails, and with the narrative already set in place through government and media, almost certainly it will be someone matching the description of a ”domestic terrorist”. Almost certainly, the person will sound like many of us, who are tired of a government that no longer serves them.

It is no accident that, while these events unfold around us, we are seeing land grabs at the local level. It is no accident that we are seeing sales taxes being introduced in favor of cutting the taxes for the wealthy. It is no accident that Ameren now has effective control over our shore line. It is no accident that EEZ’s and Article 600 has been considered by our county officials.

It is no coincidence that Lake Ozark has passed an ordinance that violates free speech and the ability to protest at official meetings. Those who would commit crimes against us would rather not have to hear our opposition.

The Boston Marathon blasts will lead to an escalation of police state tactics. This is an inevitable conclusion, one drawn from all-too recent experience. It is not an accident that it comes now, as we are putting down our party banners and focusing on those who would truly do us harm.

Those of us who see the truth, who see the working parts of a mechanism of corruption, will not be silent in the wake of Boston. Instead, we will realize that it is that much more urgent to work together against a government that no longer serves us. We realize the time to stand is now and we will do so, shoulder to shoulder.

It wasn’t that it didn’t matter before, but it is different today. The cold steel gun barrel of their threat rests against the back of my head. It is pressing down hard, with the weight of a nightmare. It promises, in that deadly kiss against my skin, to send the bullet of their intent through my fragile world, pulverizing, rending and destroying.

It threatens those I love the most.

It matters now.

While I’ve allowed myself to be their fool, to be willfully ignorant, they have advanced an insidious agenda against us. All of us.

The truth they are keeping hidden, is horrific. There is a reason they have now authorized, via Washington, the use of propaganda on US citizens. If we knew what they were keeping from us, if we knew what they intend for our grandmothers and fathers, brothers. Sisters, fathers and mothers. Uncles, Aunts, nephews and nieces.

If we knew what they mean to do to our children…

It matters now.

After #sundayschool with @AmericanSpring on Twitter, this evening I began a preliminary look into TrapWire, the surveillance program revealed in leaked emails from Strategic Forecasting, or Stratfor. What I found there, in my first piece of reading, crystallizes their plan for us. The truth they cannot afford for us to know reveals their crimes in the same ‘predictive’ way TrapWire is designed for. What those in office and their corporate benefactors will do next, they have done before. They have been perfecting their craft over these many decades.

Now, they are bringing that uniquely American export home.

TrapWire is an International Surveillance Coordination Network from Abraxus, an intelligence company. In this piece from Ben Doernberg, we are introduced to another strand of the dark and secret web that has been spun around us in the wake of 9/11. In what comes in a close series of shocks, the strands of their elaborate trap become all to clear.

Wikileaks has introduced us, in another series of released emails, to TrapWire, its owner Abraxus, and the power behind them, the Cubic Corporation. Taken alone, TrapWire’s network of cameras around the world and its secret installation in New York City, Las Vegas, Washington DC and Los Angeles and the implementation of “See Something, Say Something” campaigns in these cities reveals an intelligence gathering capability only previously imagined in fiction.

TrapWire uses closed circuit cameras around the world to capture and record movements of any citizen where it is implemented, at any time. It utilizes traffic cameras, security cameras and other closed circuit systems, such as the New York subway system and over 60 casinos in Las Vegas, to observe the population. The images gathered by these systems is integrated with ‘threat detection software’ and it collects and cross-references those images with any reports of suspicious activity, generated from the “See Something, Say Something” programs, police reports, social media outlets, etc. It allows for ‘predictive crime solving’ through a series of binary code conceived in the minds of ex-CIA operatives. It forwards this information to the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. From a centralized database, it can then be utilized by law enforcement, private corporations, military bases and federal agencies.

TrapWire is only the beginning.

Cubic Corporation is a US Military and Defense contractor. It owns companies Abraxus and Ntrepid. Ntrepid provides ‘Persona Management’ services to the United States and unspecified “multinational forces” in conjunction with CENTCOM information operations for program Operation Earnest Voice.

Cubic Corporation provides systems to our military, ranging from training simulations to asset tracking. Also, and most interestingly, under its corporate umbrella, it contains Cubic Transportation Systems, which is the world’s leading provider of automated fare collection systems and services for public transit authorities.

This allows them access to every E-pass, BART pass, subway pass, etc. across the world. As a result, they can track the movements of any citizen utilizing any of the methods of transportation in any location Cubic’s machines are.

It is widely assumed that the contract with the USAF and CENTCOM identifies Ntrepid as a corporate front for its parent and sister companies: Cubic and Abraxus.

It is through this connection that the web spun around us begins to take shape.

‘Persona Management’ or Project PM, specifically states as one of its functions, the creation of software allowing “fake online personas to influence net conversations and spread US propaganda”.

Abraxus, with TrapWire and other technologies, has been revealed to be a significant player in Project PM. It opened its Chinese branch in 2004 and has refined the tools that make up Persona Management.

Its Chinese branch. Yes, that’s correct. The suppression of freedom, exported by ex-CIA minds, to China, in order to allow them to oppress their people and prevent them from organizing against their “Communist” overlords.

Project PM allows for the implementation and delivery of an immense amount of centralized and cross referenced intelligence data to US Central Command while actively engaging in silencing dissent through the internet and its social media outlets.

Big Brother.

Worse.

The released emails from Stratfor intelligence agency, included these alleged remarks by their Vice President of Intelligence, Fred Burton:

“TrapWire is a technology solution predicated on behavior patterns in red zones to identify surveillance. It helps you connect the dots over time and distance.”

Let’s connect some dots of our own then.

Details of this immense, invasive, secret surveillance apparatus comes while the NDAA is debated in court. Specifically, the provision which allows for the indefinite military detention of American citizens, without cause, warrant or trial. The Obama administration is arguing they should have the ability to detain citizens in such a manner, if they meet the ‘criteria’ of a terrorist.

This historic legal battle is taking place in a vacuum of media silence. The corporations who own these ‘news’ outlets, those who have purchased our politicians and courts, have made clear their intention, driven by their bottom lines. They are willing partners in keeping the public uninformed. Project PM allows for internet accounts of this legal battle to be minimized by computer programs designed to counter reports of truth and open, honest debate.

These are tools that are being used against us, to hide the psychotic personality of unfettered capitalism. They are being used to hide the brutal truth.

In a global economy, there is only way to compete with China.

We must do it better than they do. We must be able to provide a better profit margin in America. There is only one way to do that.

The NDAA, in addition to indefinite detention, allows for the use of propaganda in the United States against its citizens. As the leaked emails revealed, there are active programs in the United States monitoring social media. These forces are attempting to, and are, subverting conversations in order to quell dissent and dissatisfaction with our ‘status quo’, as sponsored by Wal-Mart, Chevron and Bank of America.

It does not stop there.

They own our television stations, our newspapers and our radio channels. Those outlets, and those who work at them, have gone silent. They either cannot or will not do their job. Whether through editorial direction, corporate ownership, advertisers wishes or their own fear, ‘journalists’ and ‘editors’ have forsaken their duties and written it off as ‘doing their job’. To be fair, as they have watched the Obamanation administration go after whistleblowers with an unprecidented fervor, it is reasonable that they see the next step in this war on truth. It is a war on journalism also. It leaves them entrenched in foxholes, afraid to stick their head out for fear of retribution for delivering the truth of what is happening around us. The other thing it does however, is leave a population defenseless.

This morning’s #sundayschoolfocused on my local paper, the Lake Sun. The paper, owned by Gatehouse Media, on the Friday before the election, spun a police report containing murderous threats against underprivileged children into a ‘smear campaign’ against a Tea Party County Commission Candidate. As a result, I was asked by Gatehouse Media Executive Editor Brian Trahan (@btrahan65 on Twitter) why I included him in some of my Tweets regarding the lies and manipulation of events by the Lake Sun.

“Why are you including me in your posts?” He asked. “I’m an editor in Louisiana, not Missouri.” While my answer read differently, it could have been this:

It matters now.

My children are the victims of your silence. My children will pay the price for the justifi